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President Buhari May Sign The 2020 Budget On Tuesday
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari is billed to sign the 2020 Appropriation Bill on Tuesday.
The Punch newspaper reported that a reliable source from the National Assembly had revealed on Sunday that the presidency had extended an invitation to the leadership of the National Assembly to the budget –signing ceremony at the Aso-Rock Villa.
An official, who is an aide of one of the presiding officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan among others, had been invited to the signing ceremony.
The source at the National Assembly also revealed that “We have a notice from the presidency to be at the Villa on Tuesday for the budget signing. The time and date may change but I have it on good authority that the ceremony is slated for Tuesday 17, 2019.
Recall that both Chambers had on 5 December 2019 concurrently passed the 2019 Appropriation Bill raising the budget estimate fromN10.33 Trillion to about N10.6 Trillion.
So, This will bring Nigeria back to January – December budget cycle after the National Assembly had put a clause in the bill that the budget should run from 1 January 2020
However, part of the increment was because the National Assembly raised its budget from N125 billion to N128 billion. The budget was sent to the presidency on Friday.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
